Perspective Pack

This essay is a response to Sabine Broeck’s essay in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. Mariani concurs with Broeck that the teaching and studying of U.S. culture...

Abstract Since first developed in the early sixties, silicon chip technology has made vast leaps forward. From a rudimentary circuit with a mere handful of transisto...

Introductory Sociology is one of the most ambitious, scholarly and popular textbooks in its field. This welcome new edition builds on the strengths of its predecessor in its themat...

This chapter considers the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974. It covers the background to the HSWA, covering both the criminal and civil liablity for health...

How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? In a work that spans 2,500 years these fundamental questions are addresse...

This chapter first emphasizes the effect of family allowances on poverty in European countries. It stresses the fact that if family allowances appear to have a remarkably redistrib...